Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

It’s not often a math paper goes viral, but a new preprint from a theoretical physicist at Poland’s Jagiellonian University ...

From fractions and decimals to distance and time, the humble-but-versatile number line can deepen students’ understanding of ...

For Sarthak Dassarma ’26, mathematics isn’t a set of rules to memorize—it’s a story, and the Putnam Competition is just his ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, a group of Polish mathematicians regularly met in a café in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, ...

Diffie-Hellman’s key-exchange method runs this kind of exponentiation protocol, with all the operations conducted in this way ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...

EdSource · A University of California in the heart of farm country aims to attract more students A report about declining math preparation at UC San Diego has been generating hysterical headlines in ...

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...